As Maiocco notes, there aren’t necessarily any specifics involved here. Though, both teams are in the midst of a summer in which training camp battles are the name of the game. For the Broncos, it’s all about finding the right guy to take snaps under center. Heck, Denver still has no idea how its running back situation is going to play out. Pure conjecture here, but 49ers running back Carlos Hyde could be one of the guys the two teams are talking about. Hyde is a free agent following the season and has been the subject of rumors suggesting he might not fit new head coach Kyle Shanahan’s system. San Francisco also has a plethora of young running backs who have impressed the brass, including rookie

Matt Barkley, the Chicago Bears’ 3rd-string quarterback last season, saw significant time in seven games for the 2016 version of the Bears. In five of those seven games he threw two or more interceptions, and all five were losses. In his clean games, the Bears managed to go 1-1, including a narrow 20-17 loss to the Lions and a 26-6 beatdown of the pathetic San Francisco 49ers. Barkley was just about as bad as a quarterback can be, and served as a microcosm of what went wrong for Chicago both in terms of execution and luck last season. The Bears have been a joke to Packers fans for awhile now, and last year’s 3-13 record wasn’t exactly unexpected. But underneath the surface of this bottom-feeder,

The man in charge of Colin Kaepernick's former team is sharing his thoughts on the ongoing national anthem protests. 49ers general manager John Lynch said that while football and the love of the game should unite players of different backgrounds, he believes players have a right to use their position as a platform to speak out on their personal beliefs. "We had a great deal the other day where we had four chairs up here, and there was Steve Young and Jerry Rice," Lynch said, via ESPN.